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Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949)
Sorry to have been gone so long. No, I was not in a sanitarium. If I was it would be this one.
Life can be tough for a recent college graduate looking for a job as a film archivist and I have been putting my focus elsewhere. In fact, I've pulled up stakes and moved clear across the country. These will likely be the last of the San Francisco address posts. Now I'm looking for films set in Philadelphia, just like me.
Can you tell me the titles of classic films set in Philadelphia? I know of The Philadelphia Story and that's it. There is such history here that there ought to be more. I doubt there was much focus on Colonial times or the Revolutionary or Civil wars, but a lot happened here during prohibition. There must be a good noir or two that I'm overlooking. Please add them to the comments.
These days times are still tough and I don't have a way of watching films just yet. In the meanwhile, I still intend to bring back a lot of the archive of images. I think I'll re-post them so they'll be ripe for fresh viewing instead of having them slide back into their old slots unannounced as I have done so far.
I'm so glad to be back!
Filbert Street and Sansome Street
Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949)
Life can be tough for a recent college graduate looking for a job as a film archivist and I have been putting my focus elsewhere. In fact, I've pulled up stakes and moved clear across the country. These will likely be the last of the San Francisco address posts. Now I'm looking for films set in Philadelphia, just like me.
Can you tell me the titles of classic films set in Philadelphia? I know of The Philadelphia Story and that's it. There is such history here that there ought to be more. I doubt there was much focus on Colonial times or the Revolutionary or Civil wars, but a lot happened here during prohibition. There must be a good noir or two that I'm overlooking. Please add them to the comments.
These days times are still tough and I don't have a way of watching films just yet. In the meanwhile, I still intend to bring back a lot of the archive of images. I think I'll re-post them so they'll be ripe for fresh viewing instead of having them slide back into their old slots unannounced as I have done so far.
I'm so glad to be back!
Filbert Street and Sansome Street
Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949)
8 comments:
Thanks for your well wishes - my career needs them.
And thank you for all the comments over the years. Your presence here makes this a welcome home for me.
Wow! Good luck! I had wondered what happened to you and figured buried in school! Good luck with the humid summers and cold winters! Good food in Philly and I am sure good film locations to sniff out, too! Come back and visit some time!
Congratulations on your work with the SF Silent Film Festival!
Thank you for the good luck. And I'm actually looking FORWARD to living with some real weather :)
I have a couple leads on film in Philly already so I'll get to work on that. All the best to you!
Rocky. And, umm, The Sixth Sense?
Wait, what's your definition of classic? Does it include 90s meoldramas featuring Tom Hanks being skinny?
Do you know how immensely popular "Rocky" is in this city? Not only are the souvenir shops full of Rocky products, there is a larger-than-life statue outside the freaking Philadelphia Museum of Art. The statue has a perpetual line of people waiting to take their photograph in front of it.
But no, I don't consider the film to be classic Hollywood. That era of complete studio control was dead by the 1960s, though I consider the arrival of method acting as the cut-off point.
A classic film but not classic Hollywood, I know.
But it did occur to me that David Goodis was from Philadelphia. It looks like The Burglar (Paul Wendkos,1957) is set there, following Goodis's novel. I haven't seen it but it has a strong cast and the novel is very worthwhile.
A classic film but not classic Hollywood, I know.
But it did occur to me that David Goodis was from Philadelphia. It looks like The Burglar (Paul Wendkos,1957) is set there, following Goodis's novel. I haven't seen it but it has a strong cast and the novel is very worthwhile.
Oh he IS! Thanks, I will search that one out. And now I have more leads. My research so far has been somewhat fruitful....
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